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." >> he's also the funeral director in a small town in central michigan. >> a good funeral is one that gets the dead where they need to go and the living where they need to be. >> lynch's award-winning book, the undertaking, is a portrait of a life spent in the presence of the dead. >> so much of what we do is held up to ridicule, but it's just how you blur your eyes, whether you want to see the silliness of what we humans do when someone dies or if you look at it carefully and see in it something deeply sublime. >> tonight ofrontline, behind the scenes at a funeral home as an undertaker and his family care for both the living and the dead. >> frontline is made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. and by the corporation for public broadcasting. major support for frontliis provided by the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. more information is available at macfound.org. additional funding is provided by the park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of cri
." >> he's also the funeral director in a small town in central michigan. >> a good funeral is one that gets the dead where they need to go and the living where they need to be. >> lynch's award-winning book, the undertaking, is a portrait of a life spent in the presence of the dead. >> so much of what we do is held up to ridicule, but it's just how you blur your eyes, whether you want to see the silliness of what we humans do when someone dies or if you look at it...
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michigan was a powerful democratic stronghold, but george romney had a maverick streak. he ran as a liberal-to-moderate republican. and mitt watched as he won. >> michigan can light the authentic path to a fuller and higher expression of freedom in america. thank you very much. (crowd cheers) >> it's a little bit striking how involved he is in george's political activities from a fairly young age. >> narrator: his dad thought civil rights were worth fighting for. as a teenager, mitt was less interested in e issues than being with his dad. >> the word from his family is that he was not necessarily interested in politics as ideology. but there was always something about his father and his father's power and his father's profession that kept him around and kept him close in a way that it didn't do that for other members of his family. (newsreel music plays) >> the eyes of the nation are on san francisco as the republican party convenes to nominate its choice for president. >> narrator: and in 1964, mitt traveled with his dad to watch him take on conservative republican sena
michigan was a powerful democratic stronghold, but george romney had a maverick streak. he ran as a liberal-to-moderate republican. and mitt watched as he won. >> michigan can light the authentic path to a fuller and higher expression of freedom in america. thank you very much. (crowd cheers) >> it's a little bit striking how involved he is in george's political activities from a fairly young age. >> narrator: his dad thought civil rights were worth fighting for. as a...
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position of the department of justice, and it doesn't matter if you're in california, oregon, washington, michigan, this is the standard. >> montgomery: does that same threat go to sheriff allman? could he be under some kind of legal threat from the federal government? >> yes. whether it's a permit program, regulation or something like that, they're against federal law. and yeah, they could be a target. >> montgomery: are you concerned that the feds are going to go after you because of this progm? >> if they can give me a rational alternative, i'll be their best friend. but there's not. i mean, 14 states and the district of columbia are on this slippery slope. and they're all saying the same thing-- that the voters have approved medical marijuana, one way or the other. you know, i haven't seen it going the other way by the voters. i haven't seen voters saying, "let's take it off the books." >> montgomery: the word in recent weeks is that letter from the us attorney may soon arrive here in mendocino county, right in the heart of growing season. then, everyone involved in the tagging program, from t
position of the department of justice, and it doesn't matter if you're in california, oregon, washington, michigan, this is the standard. >> montgomery: does that same threat go to sheriff allman? could he be under some kind of legal threat from the federal government? >> yes. whether it's a permit program, regulation or something like that, they're against federal law. and yeah, they could be a target. >> montgomery: are you concerned that the feds are going to go after you...
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. >> smith: chris deckrow owns a small climbing company in michigan that typically works at the bottom of a chain of contractors. >> the good companies are going out of business because they can't afford their safety. theyan't afford their insurance. they can't afford their workmen's comp. >> smith: deckrow showed us what's left over for him after each contractor, especially the turf vendor, takes a big cut. >> at&t pays the turfer $187 to install a remote radio head. the turfer then takes the contractor and pays them $93. i've seen seen as low as $40 to $50 and have been paid $40 and $50 to install that same item. >> smith: deckrow says the pricing has forced him to make hard decisions. he drives his trucks more than 100,000 miles a year without changing the tires. and he's cut his safety budget. >> this day and age, everybody's faced with the money versus safety. whether they'll admit it or not, everybody's had to cut back on something. we would love to replace every year, every two years, new harnesses and new safety gear for all our guys. it's not in the budget. but this is stuff t
. >> smith: chris deckrow owns a small climbing company in michigan that typically works at the bottom of a chain of contractors. >> the good companies are going out of business because they can't afford their safety. theyan't afford their insurance. they can't afford their workmen's comp. >> smith: deckrow showed us what's left over for him after each contractor, especially the turf vendor, takes a big cut. >> at&t pays the turfer $187 to install a remote radio...
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in michigan, they discovered the body of a prominent banker and missed the bullet hole in his neck. in nebraska, murderers went free because of incompetent death investigations, while in mississippi, botched autopsies helped send innocent people to prison for life. >> the difference between competent death investigation and incompetent death investigation may be the difference between what side of a state border you're on. there may be areas where, on one side of the border, you have a statewide medical examiner and competent death investigation; the other side of the border may be a small county coroner with few resources and little training in death investigation. >> bergman: in more than 1,300 counties across the country, elected politicians called coroners are in charge of death investigation. >> there are coroners trying to carry out death investigations, but they don't have the training, they don't have the money, they don't have the infrastructure, and they don't have the skill. i guess you really have to ask yourself, do you want your cause of death and your manner of death
in michigan, they discovered the body of a prominent banker and missed the bullet hole in his neck. in nebraska, murderers went free because of incompetent death investigations, while in mississippi, botched autopsies helped send innocent people to prison for life. >> the difference between competent death investigation and incompetent death investigation may be the difference between what side of a state border you're on. there may be areas where, on one side of the border, you have a...
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i used to sell fake hash to the sailors down on michigan avenue. i used to steal smoke detectors. they called me "the smoke detector bandit." i was playing on women a lot. you know, women would help me. i had a lot of girlfriends that would give me money, because i had a big old afro back them. first i worked for ceasefire in 1999. i told gary i had a bachelor's degreet that time. ( laughing) and gary asked me, he said, "where is your bachelor's degree at?" i say, "look, man, hey, i was just trying to get in." i went back to school. i got my bachelor's degree with my master's degree. i began to understand that we'd been taught violence. violence is learned behavior. i don't mention gang names when i do my mediations, all right? >> at this transitional home for teenage parolees, the residents were in conflict with one another, and they were pulling in gang members from throughout the area. it was about to blow up in a major way. >> the problem that we have right now is about some money that led to a fight. right? how much money was it? >> five dollars. >> it was about five dollars,
i used to sell fake hash to the sailors down on michigan avenue. i used to steal smoke detectors. they called me "the smoke detector bandit." i was playing on women a lot. you know, women would help me. i had a lot of girlfriends that would give me money, because i had a big old afro back them. first i worked for ceasefire in 1999. i told gary i had a bachelor's degreet that time. ( laughing) and gary asked me, he said, "where is your bachelor's degree at?" i say,...